Our VALUES

Catholic Charities of Idaho’s values define the core of our agency and inspire the work that we do for and with those most in need. At the root of Catholic social teaching and our mission is the sanctity and dignity of human life. The value of the human person transcends class, culture, income, intelligence, physical ability or appearance, economic productivity, social status, health condition or any other physical or external social measurement. Life is sacred from conception to natural death.

Our faith traditional calls us to a preferential love for those who are impacted by poverty and marginalization. Catholic Charities upholds the common good in all of our work. In our services, we not only work to assist people with their immediate needs, but to find long term solutions that will allow them to live a just and empowered way of life.

The foundation of all human society is rooted in the family. At Catholic Charities we uphold the importance and dignity of the family and recognize it as a source of love, life and stability that helps its members, especially children, grow to their fullest potential.

Truth

Catholic Charities affirms that transparency and accountability will always be pursued in our communication and work. We affirm the truth of the intrinsic dignity and worth of the human person as a social being and will witness to our Catholic identity in fulfilling our roles in Church and society.

Freedom

Catholic Charities affirms that we will always assist our clients, staff and volunteers to live in socially responsible freedom, to exercise their authentic autonomy in light of objective truth and to actualize their inherent potential as beings created in the image and likeness of God. We will respect and affirm the autonomy of each organization/entity with whom we are in relationship.

Justice

CCI affirms clients have the right to self-actualization and to reach their potential as beings created in the image and likeness of God. We affirm all agreements and relationships with stakeholders will be based on norms of justice. We affirm we will maintain diversity and excellence in our membership, board, leadership positions and staff. We affirm we will work to eradicate racism and prejudice within our organization and in society at large.

Love

​Catholic Charities affirms that love – caritas – will be the chief identifying characteristic and element of our work and life.

"Catholic Charities has been the best help that I have had here. After having so many letdowns, they have helped immensely. Now apart from seeing my daughters happy, I have a happiness that is very, very important which is my work permit, social security, and the hope that I will be able to go back and see my mother."

Marilu Hernandez

Immigration Client

"If we ... are going to have influence on those individuals that are coming, it has to be by reaching out and giving a Christ-like hug and assisting them in going forward. If you look at Catholic Charities as a whole, it's fulfilling scripture, but it's also giving those of us in the pews a chance to live up to what w'ere supposed to live up to."

Bob Naerebout

Fmr. Dir. Idaho Dairyman's Association

"So for those who help Idaho Catholic Charities, you are doing the work of God."

Reverend Camilo Garcia Delgado

Camilo Garcia Delgado

"One of the ways that Catholic Charities is really sharing the journey with people is the willingness to walk into the messiness of their lives ... to be able to accompany them wherever they're at ... to address their needs based on their individuality rather than saying 'unless you fit this profile' ... to give each person the dignity of treating them as individuals rather than as a number or as a case file, to get to know these people and to care for them on many levels ... the fruits that come of that, again as people sometimes that find themselves without hope but now have found a new hope with these people partnering with them, walking with them, and sharing their journey with them."